Finished Project

BEFORE:Sometime last summer, when we lived in the apartment I was taking out some trash and found a wooden, glider rocker out by the dumpster. I thought, "Hey! Free chair, cool!" I hefted it up to the apartment and began my standard prodcedures for dumpster treasures--lysol, lysol, and more lysol. I trashed the seat cushions that were on it and planned to fashion something myself (the before pictures show something along the lines of what I was planning for new cushions). Around the time that I pulled out a staple gun to get to work on the bottom seat cushion, Marty said, "Why don't we strip it and really do it up nice before we put new cushions on?"

OK.

We did a little research and made many quick trips to Lowe's and we worked on it some. And then we let it sit for months. And then we worked on it some more. And a little bit more. And finally, more than six months later, it's finally finished. Around the time that we were staining it, I realized that no cushions I could make would do the chair justice; thus, the cushions you see in the after photos.

Now that it's done, I absolutely love it, and as you see, so does Cher.

Now I just need a glider ottoman to go with it...

AFTER: